Section 13: "Hike Like a Monkey!"
Hatchett Hill Rd to Route 20, 2.3 miles
September 1, 2018
Has it really been almost a year since our last Metacomet section hike? Yes. But I don't care. This day may have been the first opportunity to hike with Hoang in that intervening 11 months! And I'm glad we took … [Read more...]

Oh Boy.
Ledge Road Connector Trail & Boy Rock/Great Stone Face
Sunset Rock State Park, Plainville
July 2018
Cutting to the chase - the purpose of this page's existence really has nothing to do with the trail of the title. I've hiked this trail before, way back in 2007 with Hoang.
When I edited that page in … [Read more...]

Officially Petitioning for Elephant Shrews Everywhere
Farmington: Reservoir Trails
~.75 miles, January 2018
We have a lot of little reservoirs in central Connecticut. As you can imagine, they are hugely important to us residents of central Connecticut. A secondary bonus function of them, besides sustaining our … [Read more...]

Acme Missiles
Along the Metacomet Trail, Plainville/Farmington
October 6, 2007
My title is a stretch, sure... but “acme” is defined as “the highest point” and Wile E. Coyote was always sourcing his weaponry from Acme and this outcropping, above Plainville and Farmington, used to be a Nike Missile base.
Ahem. … [Read more...]

A Prickly Situation
Prickly Pear Cacti Along the Metacomet Trail
October 6, 2007
This page is one of my favorite pages out of the thousands of CTMQ pages.
If you know anything about me, you know that I am a skeptic in the classic sense. I like to learn stuff, and I like to learn factual stuff that goes against … [Read more...]

Section 12: We’re Still At It!
Farmington River to Hatchett Hill Rd, 2.3 miles
October 7, 2017
Hello? Is this thing on? Yes? Good.
It has been almost exactly SIX years since our last Metacomet Trail section hike. Yup, the last time Hoang and I hiked it was mid-October 2011.
Man, time flies. Back then, … [Read more...]

Section 11: You Can't Pen These Woods
Penwood State Park to Farmington River, 6.2 miles
October 14, 2011
There was no happier boy in the world than me, waking up on Friday the 14th. It had been a full FOUR years since I had hiked the Metacomet Trail and now, with a day off from work, my wife and I were setting … [Read more...]

Castle Craig
Meriden
Stone Tower (~32 feet) on East Peak (976 feet)
For more about our hike up to Castle Craig, Go here
Perhaps the goofiest name of all the towers in the state, Castle Craig is also the most accessible. It’s really the only one visitors can drive right up to the base (almost) of, I think. All … [Read more...]

Ragged Mountain Trails (Metacomet side trails)
6.0 Miles, solo
Multiple hikes
I'm doing something a little bit different for this write-up. Instead of me droning on about the hike, I'm pretty much going to let the pictures do the talking. One of my life's goals is to convince Nutmeggers that we have pretty darn … [Read more...]